Waves,

Thank you for your specific post.

Post to me this:

1. When the alarm is set
2. When you take your medications for tonight.

I am sitting at my computer and awaiting updates from you.

Mari

waves, you sound as if you could swim 100 metres in 47 seconds!

Hey, just passing by and saw your post. I try not to butt in too much but I just wanted to say that I hope you feel more settled soon.

Just curious though about exercizing really hard when you feel like this. Would it help?

Hee hee hee Mari, you are funny. and very sweet.

i just had dinner.

ALARM... i set a recurring alarm for 23:30 for evening meds. first i set it for one minute after the current time, with recurrency, to test if it would go off. it did.

i will try to remember to post when i take the meds. sorry if i don't promise because i may be doing something else and not on the computer. but the meds are loaded in the pillminder at my bedside so it will be easy to grab and just take them when the alarm goes off. i always keep water on hand too.

my current meds are:
-- 800 mg Depakote 24 hr release
-- 1.5 mg delorazepam (long acting benzo) i am in reduction and playing by ear somewhat - can take up to 2mg my "base" dose and/or pad with lorazepam as needed.
-- 800 mg condroitin (for my knee which started to act up again.)

i see that i had overlooked your question as to what i took today. all my meds are single dose at night, except zoloft which is currently suspended, so nothing yet.

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i am feeling better now than when i posted this morning although i still feel revved and made a royal mess in the kitchen cooking... nearly destroyed the dinner side dishes, and nearly destroyed two pans but! albeit by the skin of my teeth, everything turned out ok! and my folks enjoyed what i prepared and the cookware suffered no permanent injury it seems (mom would have noticed) so all is hunky dory in the kitchen again and ready for my next cookery crookery tomorrow.

i have sold both of them on trying spinach mashed potatoes tomorrow night! see today i totally overcooked a potato and could not use it so i mashed and refrigerated it, plus we have leftover garlic spinach so i'm going to hunt down Bizi's recipe. yaaaaay i have always wanted to make that but they are not very open to trying new stuff, they would use a word like "concoction" and with great suspicion.

for myself i bought a big pack of fresh mixed greens thursday night and had half for lunch, will be finishing off between tomorrow and monday. the Mg content should help me.

i did not take my vits tonight, or not yet, because i ate so much. i may take them in a little while. i got real HOOUNNNGRY before dinner and my would-be snack of tuna pate on bread turned into a meal of its own (erhm, impulse control not great there ) ... then meat at dinner - mom made a lot too... URGGH... I feel like a thanksgiving turkey! gobble gobble. well that is what i did, so i guess it only follows, eh?

ok talk to you later. thanks for listening to my junk.

~ waves ~

Hi Lara,

great to see you!

and thank you for your post and kind wishes!

Please know that you are welcome to "butt in" as much as you feel like here. I LIKE YOU and I know that others here do too!!!

excercise would help and i would if i could but am very limited in what i can do... i feel i would need a movement type thing and i can't even walk real fast right now my knee is too messed up. if i could run it would help. i can't afford a gym membership where i could find no-impact machines and/or use the pool. doing pushups and stuff at home is not an option - no privacy and no space.

what helped was when i opened the windows and froze my butt off today LOL, got the inside temp down to the sixties. i think it diverted some of the energy to producing extra body heat. HEHEH! but i can't do that every day. today i had a short window when both parents were out.

tomorrow no morning coffee. i felt a bit better once it wore off, so just nixing caffeine should help some. i'm normally a zombie without caffeine but it's not the first time i have had to yank it as a first line measure, before upping meds - a case where less is more...

~ waves ~

Waves,

Thanks for posting. I hope it is ok that my posts are short.

Pill minder is good.
Recurring alarm set and tested is fabulous.

The vits are not vital to mood unless it is for routine.

You are eating good food even if it is more than you would prefer. I am glad that dinner turned out fine and that the pans are safe ( I understand about wanting pans to be safe. I would rather not eat than burn a pan and have to 'splain things to hubby because he gets concerned with something is amiss.)

I waas not aware that coffee could affect mood much. You are doing great.


Mari

I just wanted you to know, you are not alone in some of those feelings. All my life I have had mood swings. Now more then ever. Yesterday, I was DX'd bi-polar also. I am on new medications and I hope they work. I didn't know why things were setting my temper off, or why I cried, or why when I was up I was really up. Here I am 61 and just now figuring out why I am like this. The selling of my home, and all the effort it takes is what set me off like a rocket. I will keep you and NT. in my thoughts and prayers. I care what happends to you. ginnie

meds:
- 800 mg depakote
- 1 mg delorazepam (not 1.5, i type that wrong before, my pillminder has 1mg doses in it.
- the horse-sized capsules for my knee

also took

- my b complex (one dose)
- vit D (3 days worth: today's yesterdays and thursdays)
- 2 vials magnesium pidolate d/t signs of migraine onset

had a piece of cheese crust to help my stomach cope with the B vits.

imminent migraine indicates PMS. tired and tucking in now.

~ waves ~

not for routine but largely for depletions by the depakote. i was clinically deficient in folic acid when tested for instance. but i prefer to take an over all b complex than just folate. the selenium-zinc formula covers depletions also.

LOL yah, sounds like tween your hubby and my mom...

usually it does not affect my mood much at all. just when i get more than a little hypo suddenly like this time, then, it is like a match to gasoline. if the mood escalation is gradual i seem to adjust to the caffeine even though i might have less because i need it less.
thanks so much Mari. i am trying to stay on top of things. i also told my parents about being so up and forgetting the meds. mom checked with me tonight if i'd taken them. i already had but an extra reminder is good in this situation.[/QUOTE]

thanks for sticking with me and reading through all my stuff. i hope you have a good evening and night.



~ waves ~

thanks Ginnie. i hope you have good luck with your new meds... accepting the dx is hard, weird, and a bit of a process, but we are all here for you. take care sweetie.

~ waves ~

Dear Ginnie,

Lots and lots of hugs.

Please know that you are going to feel better.
With the diagnosis in place, the doctor can give you targeted medications.

M